[BeetleB]

As someone who has studied a lot more math than CS (including grad level physics and math courses), and does SW for a living, this is nonsense.

I mean, sure, algorithms involve math. If you're dealing with trees/graphs, that's math. If you're compiling a program there is math behind the scenes. But for the majority of SW engineers, actually knowing the math is of little benefit to most problems that SW engineers need to solve. As long as you know the rudiments of algorithmic complexity (big Oh notation, etc), you're good.

(I am excluding trivial things like arithmetic and very basic algebra, as clearly this submission is speaking of more advanced math).